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Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

1886 - 1957

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Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, ( CHAR-wel; 5 April 1886 – 3 July 1957) was a British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II. He was involved in the development of radar and infra-red guidance systems. He was sceptical of the first reports of the enemy's V-weapons programme. He pressed the case for the strategic area bombing of cities. His abiding influence on Churchill stemmed from close personal friendship, as a member of the latter's country-house set. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell is the 499th most popular physicist (up from 810th in 2019), the 3,211th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,775th in 2019) and the 74th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 499 out of 851. Before him are Meghnad Saha, Augusto Righi, Heinrich Rubens, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, Emil Warburg, and Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost. After him are Robert Serber, Charles Galton Darwin, Alfred Ewing, Eugen Goldstein, Gaspard de Prony, and Giovanni Aldini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 143. Before him are Otto von Knobelsdorff, Helen Parkhurst, Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Siegfried Sassoon, Takuboku Ishikawa, and Max Vasmer. After him are Fred Quimby, Radhabinod Pal, Alexander Svanidze, Florence Lawrence, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, and Constant Permeke. Among people deceased in 1957, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 117. Before him are Grace Coolidge, Kiyoshi Shiga, Maurice McLoughlin, Bertha Krupp, Marija Jurić Zagorka, and Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone. After him are Avetik Isahakyan, Paja Jovanović, Josephine Hull, Oldřich Duras, Charles Pathé, and Georges Hébert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 3,213 out of 7,253. Before him are Theodor Meynert (1833), Anna of Hesse (1529), Felix von Luckner (1881), Karl Rapp (1882), Hans Meyer (1858), and Karl Neukirch (1864). After him are Susanna of Bavaria (1502), Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen (1710), Gustav Lombard (1895), Berthold (1180), Waldemar Cierpinski (1950), and Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell ranks 74. Before him are Heinrich Barkhausen (1881), Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687), Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796), Heinrich Rubens (1865), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), and Emil Warburg (1846). After him are Charles Galton Darwin (1887), August Beer (1825), Pief Panofsky (1919), Woldemar Voigt (1850), Ursula Franklin (1921), and Georg Adolf Erman (1806).

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